Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility
Abstract
In analytic theology, corporate and/or communal accounts of moral responsibility are gaining recognition as a useful resource in numerous debates. One of the areas to which they have been applied is the atonement. It is thought that when Christ is atoning for the human community, one evades concerns about justice because it seems permissible for a member of a group to suffer punishment for the group's actions even if they are not morally responsible for these themselves. To establish the moral responsibility of the human community, one can either adopt group agency or utilize a non-agential form of group moral responsibility. I shall explore the latter option here and shall outline the understanding of communal sin undergirding the model.
Citation
Cawdron , H 2023 , ' Communal sin, atonement, and group non-agential moral responsibility ' , Religious Studies , vol. FirstView . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412523000665
Publication
Religious Studies
Status
Peer reviewed
ISSN
0034-4125Type
Journal article
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